Steve Wyrick’s Magic Chopper

Magic Chopper

To celebrate Steve Wyrick’s 1,000th show at Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino, the Teutuls of Orange County Choppers built him a custom chopper for an epic reveal that he would be doing for an episode of the TV reality series American Chopper. When they were designing the bike, Steve Wyrick challenged them to make one part of it invisible. Together, they created a secret gas tank to be hidden in the rear wheel well so that the bike would appear to have an invisible gas tank.

With only a short period of time to complete the project, headed by Rick Petco, the focus is on the gas tank. The first time around, there was a problem with the water jet – the jet didn’t end because there were some holes in the tank that shouldn’t have been there. But after putting some scraps of aluminum and steel inside the tank, everything was working out great. Read more